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Sporting Vernacular NO 148: REFEREE
Independent, The (London), Nov 26, 2001 by Chris Maume
DURING THE row over the removal of Mike Denness as match referee for the cricket match between South Africa and India last week, the ramifications were mostly commercial - appropriate, given the word's origins.
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In 1621, a referee (refer+ee, where "refer" comes from the Latin referre - re-, back + ferre, take or carry) was a person appointed by Parliament to examine monopolies and patent applications, and the meaning of someone to whom disputes are referred surfaced 50 years later. The specific sense of a judge of play in games was first cited in 1840, around the time Disraeli wrote: "Clear-sighted, unprejudiced, sagacious;... he was the universal referee" - much- needed in South Africa at the moment.
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